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Antipasto is an Italian first course: cold meat, cheese, olives, pickled vegetables, maybe a little bread, eaten before the main part of the meal. The name is Italian for before the meal, not against the meal. In a restaurant in English-speaking countries, antipasto often means that mixed cold plate you share at the start. In Italy the idea is a course — there may be several little dishes. The word still feels Italian; people say it that way on purpose, to mark the food as Italian. The everyday English near words are starter and appetizer, which are broader and not only Italian. It is not a kind of pasta, even though the words look close on the page.
義式前菜（餐廳常直接說 antipasto；不是義大利麵，也不只是泛稱的開胃菜。）
組成Borrowed whole from Italian antipasto, food before the meal: Italian anti- (before) + pasto (meal). This Italian anti- is from the Latin word for before, not from the English prefix anti- that means against. Doublet of the rare English word antepast.
同家族的字
- antepastan old English doublet from the same before-the-meal idea; almost nobody uses it now
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
antipastonoun/ˌæntiˈpɑstəʊ/
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An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood, and vegetables.
- The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。